generic large spoon

Large wooden ladles From the Peruvian Amazon
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The Urarina people use these wooden ladles when they make mazato, a brew from the yucca root. Boiled yucca roots are crushed and tradition has it that women chew a portion of the yucca and spit it back into the mixture to jump start the fermentation process.

Visitors to the village are usually offered a bowl of mazato as a sign of welcome.

I've drank many bowls of mazato with no ill effects save for an unpleasant headache the next morning.

I bartered for this ladle at a Urarina village along the Rio Chambira. The ladle is about 3 feet long and made from an interesting hardwood. It's stirred plenty of mazato and shows some use along the edges.

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